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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
China Forcibly Aborts Third
Child. Forced Abortion Continues Under Two-Child Policy: Government Report
XINJIANG, CHINA.
The Chinese Government, operating under the Two-Child Policy, has
forcibly aborted a woman’s third child, according to NPR
and Radio
Free Europe reports.
The woman, an ethnic Kazakh, was a widow with two children,
living in the Xinjiang region. She
married a Kazakh citizen, living in Kazakhstan, across the border. She was told that, in order to cancel
her Chinese citizenship to become a citizen of Kazakhstan, she would need to
return to China.
On this return trip, Chinese cadres invited her to the
hospital for a “health check-up.”
They discovered that she was pregnant and demanded an abortion, because
this third pregnancy violated the Two-Child policy – even though she told them,
“my husband is a Kazakh citizen and I am carrying a Kazakh citizen.”
When she resisted the abortion, they threatened that her
brother “would suffer the consequences.”
She knew this meant he would be detained in an interment camp. To protect her brother she agreed to
the abortion.
After the abortion, the police took her brother to the
internment camp anyway.
The fact that forced abortion continues under China’s
Two-Child Policy is further documented in the Population Control section of the
2018 Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
Report, which states that regulations “include provisions that require
couples to be married to have children and limit them to bearing two children .
. . Officials reportedly continued to enforce compliance with family planning
policies using methods including heavy fines, job termination, detention, and
abortion.”
Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women’s Rights Without
Frontiers, stated: “The forced
abortion of this woman’s third pregnancy is an outrage. It proves that the Chinese Communist
Party still functions as womb police. When China instituted the Two-Child Policy, it
announced that it had ‘abandoned’ the One-Child Policy, implying that the
Chinese government had ceased all coercive population control. I immediately stated that single women
and third pregnancies could still be aborted under the new rule.”
“To avert demographic disaster,” Littlejohn continued, “China
has stated that it is considering letting all couples have as many children as they want. This would be a great step in the right
direction, but it would still leave open the forcible abortion of single
women. The new rule should state
that all women can have as
many children as they want.”
Sign
a petition against forced abortion in China.
Related Links
“They Ordered Me to Get an Abortion”: A Chinese Woman’s Ordeal in Xinjiang
11/23/18
Under Treat of Chinese ‘Reeducation,’ Ethnic Kazakh Forced
to Abort Baby 10/8/18
2018 Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Report: Population Control
